WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 3, "Seventeen Seconds."Star Trek: Picard introduced 10 Forward, Guinan's (Whoopi Goldberg) bar on Earth, in season 2, complicating the legacy and history of the bar of the same name from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Guinan was seen tending bar at the earthbound 10 Forward in the Picard season 2 premiere "The Star Gazer," reuniting with a romantically troubled Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). 10 Forward would continue to be an important location even with Guinan not around, as seen in a touching flashback between Picard and Captain William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) just after the latter's son Thad was born in the season 3 episode "Seventeen Seconds."
The flashback scene in "Seventeen Seconds" suggests some of the crew of TNG made the earthbound 10 Forward something of a spiritual successor to the bar of the same name aboard the Enterprise-D. They clearly enjoyed this new location even without the presence of Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden), who disappeared shortly after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, when she was secretly pregnant with Jean-Luc Picard's son, Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers). The new 10 Forward is a useful, friendly location, but the time travel aspect of Picard season 2 led to some things about it not quite adding up.
